Electronic music producer Forest Swords is hitting a few dates across the US and Canada this year. Forest Swords, real name Matthew Barnes, will perform sets in New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, ...

Forest Swords, the artist project of Liverpool-based producer/composer Matthew Barnes, is back. "Butterfly Effect" is the first new Forest Swords material since 2018. The dark and percussive track ...

British electronic artist Forest Swords is back with his first songs in five years. “Butterfly Effect” features a previously unheard vocal sample by Neneh Cherry—with whom he previously worked on a ...

For many years, going all the way back to the days when he could be broadly if inaccurately categorized under the “witch house” umbrella, the Liverpool musician Matthew Barnes has been making dank and ...

Ninja Tune-signed UK producer Forest Swords has announced a few North American dates in June, kicking off in Brooklyn at Music Hall of WIlliamsburg on 6/14 and from there heading to Chicago, Los ...

Forest Swords has announced details of Bolted, his first album since 2017. Today's album announcement is accompanied by "The Low" and "Caged," two tracks from the album. They follow "Butterfly Effect" ...

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Forest Swords, aka electronic composer/producer Matthew Barnes, has announced a brand new studio album 'Bolted' is to be released via Ninja Tune on 20th October. Spending the past few years working as ...

“Running up that hill / I’m gonna call out every name / Until the one I’m meant to take / Sends her dove,” sings the Seattle-based art-popster Mike Hadreas, a.k.a. Perfume Genius, about halfway ...

It's been way too long since we've gotten to hear some bleak, immersive electronic music from Matthew Barnes, the British producer who calls himself Forest Swords. The last Forest Swords album was ...